Harry Hopkins

Harry Lloyd Hopkins (17 August 1890-29 January 1946) was the US Secretary of Commerce from 24 December 1938 to 18 September 1940, succeeding Daniel C. Roper and preceding Jesse H. Jones.

Biography
Harry Lloyd Hopkins was born in Sioux City, Iowa in 1890, and he came to New York City as a young man to become a social worker. When Franklin D. Roosevelt as Governor of New York from 1928 to 1933, he made Hopkins his adviser on social and welfare policies, a position that he retained when Roosevelt became President and throughout the years of the New Deal. His record in public service was without equal, serving as head of New York's Emergency Relief Administration in 1933, of the Works Progress Administration in 1935, and as Secretary of Commerce from 1938 to 1940. He was Roosevelt's manager when he ran for a third term as President in 194. Before and after the USA entered World War II he served as Roosevelt's untitled second-in-command. Hopkins was ultimately involved in most matters concerning US wartime policy. He played a pivotal role in the San Francisco Conference of 1945 which launched the Charter of the UN, and in the Allied conference at Potsdam. He was also a close friend of Winston Churchill. Hopkins hied of stomach cancer in 1946 at the age of 55.